Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis